Healthcare-associated pneumonia in the emergency department

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-51

  Slaven, Ellen M ^a   Santanilla, Jairo I ^a,b   Deblieux, Peter M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Healthcare associated; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 60549113716     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1119808     Document Type: Review

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